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Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via H3 and He3 (e,e′p)pn Cross-Section Measurements

R. Cruz-Torres1,*, D. Nguyen1,2,*, F. Hauenstein3, A. Schmidt1, S. Li4, D. Abrams5, H. Albataineh6, S. Alsalmi7, D. Androic8 et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

D. Androic8, K. Aniol9, W. Armstrong10, J. Arrington10, H. Atac11, T. Averett12, C. Ayerbe Gayoso12, X. Bai5, J. Bane13, S. Barcus12, A. Beck1, V. Bellini14, F. Benmokhtar15, H. Bhatt16, D. Bhetuwal16, D. Biswas17, D. Blyth10, W. Boeglin18, D. Bulumulla3, A. Camsonne19, J. Castellanos18, J-P. Chen19, E. O. Cohen20, S. Covrig19, K. Craycraft13, B. Dongwi17, M. Duer20, B. Duran11, D. Dutta16, E. Fuchey21, C. Gal5, T. N. Gautam17, S. Gilad1, K. Gnanvo5, T. Gogami22, J. Golak23, J. Gomez19, C. Gu5, A. Habarakada17, T. Hague24, O. Hansen19, M. Hattawy10, O. Hen1,†, D. W. Higinbotham19, E. Hughes25, C. Hyde3, H. Ibrahim26, S. Jian5, S. Joosten11, H. Kamada27, A. Karki16, B. Karki28, A. T. Katramatou24, C. Keppel19, M. Khachatryan3, V. Khachatryan29, A. Khanal18, D. King30, P. King28, I. Korover31, T. Kutz29, N. Lashley-Colthirst17, G. Laskaris1, W. Li32, H. Liu25, N. Liyanage5, P. Markowitz18, R. E. McClellan19, D. Meekins19, S. Mey-Tal Beck1, Z-E. Meziani10,33, R. Michaels19, M. Mihovilovič34,35,36, V. Nelyubin5, N. Nuruzzaman17, M. Nycz24, R. Obrecht21, M. Olson37, L. Ou1, V. Owen12, B. Pandey17, V. Pandey38, A. Papadopoulou1, S. Park29, M. Patsyuk1, S. Paul12, G. G. Petratos24, E. Piasetzky20, R. Pomatsalyuk39, S. Premathilake5, A. J. R. Puckett21, V. Punjabi40, R. Ransome41, M. N. H. Rashad3, P. E. Reimer10, S. Riordan10, J. Roche28, M. Sargsian18, N. Santiesteban4, B. Sawatzky19, E. P. Segarra1, B. Schmookler1, A. Shahinyan42, S. Širca34,43, R. Skibiński23, N. Sparveris33, T. Su24, R. Suleiman19, H. Szumila-Vance19, A. S. Tadepalli41, L. Tang19, W. Tireman44, K. Topolnicki23, F. Tortorici14, G. Urciuoli45, L. B. Weinstein3, H. Witała23, B. Wojtsekhowski19, S. Wood19, Z. H. Ye10, Z. Y. Ye46, and J. Zhang29 (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

  • 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2University of Education, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam
  • 3Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
  • 4University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
  • 5University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
  • 6Texas A & M University, Kingsville, Texas 78363, USA
  • 7King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • 8University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
  • 9California State University, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA
  • 10Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
  • 11Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
  • 12The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, USA
  • 13University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966, USA
  • 14INFN Sezione di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
  • 15Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, USA
  • 16Mississippi State University, Mississippi 39762, USA
  • 17Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23669, USA
  • 18Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
  • 19Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
  • 20School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
  • 21University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
  • 22Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
  • 23M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, PL-30348 Kraków, Poland
  • 24Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA
  • 25Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 26Cairo University, 12613 Cairo, Egypt
  • 27Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804-8550, Japan
  • 28Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
  • 29Stony Brook, State University of New York, New York 11794, USA
  • 30Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
  • 31Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
  • 32University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
  • 33Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 34University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 35Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 36Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, DE-55128 Mainz, Germany
  • 37Saint Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin 54115, USA
  • 38Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
  • 39Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov 61108, Ukraine
  • 40Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia 23504, USA
  • 41Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
  • 42Yerevan Physics Institute, 0036 Yerevan, Armenia
  • 43Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 44Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan 49855, USA
  • 45INFN, 00185 Rome, Italy
  • 46University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • †Contact Author hen@mit.edu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212501 – Published 26 May, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.212501

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the (e,e′p) three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (He3) and tritium (H3) at large momentum transfer [⟨Q2⟩≈1.9  (GeV/c)2] and xB>1 kinematics, where the cross section should be sensitive to quasielastic (QE) scattering from single nucleons. The data cover missing momenta 40≤pmiss≤500  MeV/c that, in the QE limit with no rescattering, equals the initial momentum of the probed nucleon. The measured cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art ab initio calculations. Overall good agreement, within ±20%, is observed between data and calculations for the full pmiss range for H3 and for 100≤pmiss≤350  MeV/c for He3. Including the effects of rescattering of the outgoing nucleon improves agreement with the data at pmiss>250  MeV/c and suggests contributions from charge-exchange (SCX) rescattering. The isoscalar sum of He3 plus H3, which is largely insensitive to SCX, is described by calculations to within the accuracy of the data over the entire pmiss range. This validates current models of the ground state of the three-nucleon system up to very high initial nucleon momenta of 500  MeV/c.

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